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May 4, 1999  Oklahoma experienced about 40 violent tornadoes
Monday. Tornadoes occur every year, but what made this unique
and deadly is that they struck heavily populated areas. This
is the sixth deadliest tornado outbreak in Oklahoma history.

Preliminary reports indicate
that 76 tornadoes touched down across the region, which probably
puts this outbreak in the top 10 for number of tornadoes in the
U.S.

The latest information on the tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and
Kansas, including the Fujita scale category, will be posted at
the following NOAA Internet site as it becomes available: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/nws/storms
Check this page for a report on the Oklahoma and Kansas storms.

See photos and a map
outlining the path the storms took from the Web site of the National
Weather Service forecast office in Norman, Oklahoma. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/nws/

The following NOAA offices
have experts who are available to comment on subjects related
to the May 3 and 4 tornado outbreak: